You don’t limit your practice to real horses. You’ll notice the toy horse is not just a toy horse, but a toy horse that looks like Skip. Practicing with a bay toy horse just wouldn’t be the same.

Hit & Run > I Pledge to Scream Until My Eyeballs Pop Out – Reason Magazine – Obama 1, whacked out loonie screaming about the Pledge of Allegiance 0

Pirate Olympics: 5 Alternative Ways to Watch the Olympics Online « NewTeeVee – Somebody should clue NBC in that this is 2008, all this restricting viewing by country crap is bogus.
Linux Users on NBC’s Olympics Videos: We Don’t Get No Respect | OStatic – NBC sucks.

The unofficial results show a landslide win for my friend Rob Russell. He is he Democratic nominee for Congress in the 1st District of Tennessee. The 1st District has been represented by a Republican since before the Civil War, so he has his work cut out for him to unseat the incumbent. Let’s hope the […]

I was looking at campgrounds near Shenandoah National park last night for a Labor Day weekend getaway. Why do so many campgrounds have free wi-fi? If you need free wi-fi while camping you are doing it wrong. If you need electricity while camping you are doing it wrong too. Get a grip people. Stay […]

You really have to wonder what people are thinking when they compose a letter to the editor.
High school parking at $80 a pop? Ridiculous!
My daughter will be able to drive to school this year in Spotsylvania–that is, if she can come up with the $80 parking fee, which has doubled from last year’s $40 fee.
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From the founder of Metafilter, we now have Fuelly. It’s a simple social network that does one thing. It lets you track your miles per gallon online and compare it with others. It could be interesting to see what real world mileage your vehicle make/model gets in the real world.

Win Points for McCain! – washingtonpost.com – McCain encouraging both of his supporters to astroturf blogs with cut and paste comments, thereby proving that even he knows his supporters are incapable of original thought.

Watch the Olympics Online – Wired How-To Wiki –

Well, my day is pretty much shot after reading this. Thanks Don.The family that took in this severely abused little girl should be be nominated for Sainthood. Her natural mother should be tied to post in the Everglades and left there to slowly starve to death until she becomes a snack for the vultures. […]